By Chris M. Worsnop. Wright Communications, 1999. $22.95

Screening Images is a book for the general media enthusiast as well as for teachers and students of media in high schools and colleges. The opening chapters build a framework for media education - defining its uniqueness, but also connecting it to other good educational practices. The middle section contains a series of personal essays exploring aspects of the media, and their impact on our lives and culture. It shows how experiences as ordinary as going through a family photo album, or as extraordinary as the Persian Gulf War, can provide profitable points of entry for media education.

The last section of the book is a list of suggestions for project work and activities - complete with black-line masters - which promote media education through active, cooperative learning, problem-solving, and hands-on media production.

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